Midterm Booktalks

Nothing makes me quite as panicked and anxious as public speaking. Lots of practice has given me some kind of control over it, but I don't go into a presentation without a plan. To that end I needed to know exactly who my audience was and why I was giving this booktalk. So I invented a scenario. Then I designed a script and book descriptions for the people I was talking to. If I was talking to, say, middle schoolers, I would have written something completely different. Because this would have been a more formal talk I would either have memorized my script completely (which I didn't have time for in this instance) or used noted cards. In a more relaxed setting, as long as I was talking about books I had personally (and recently) read I would be more willing to wing it.

Super thanks to my fiance Alex for playing camera man all night. He only laughed at me a little.